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Is Hotze playing in the Houston mayor’s race?

My Houston-based colleague Mimi Swartz forwarded to me this e-mail from Carl Whitmarsh, a local Democratic blogger, to Arthur Schechter, a prominent Democratic fundraiser, concerning the mayoral runoff...

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Houston mayor’s race poll: Parker +4

Note to readers: Bill King, who had considered running for mayor but decided not to make the race, has sent his considerable e-mail list the results of the first known post-election poll. This is his...

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Houston mayor’s race: Parker attacks attorney Locke’s conflicts of interest

The gist of the accusation is that several of Locke’s clients while he was a lawyer/lobbyist at the well connected Andrews Kurth firm had significant ties to the city government and entities with whom...

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Houston mayor’s race: Whitmire slams Parker for going negative

I have never pretended to be knowledgeable about the Houston mayor’s race, other than to pass along information that I have received from local sources, but I don’t get why Annise Parker has decided to...

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Houston mayor’s race: anti-gay activist sends 35,000 mailers

From today’s Chronicle, one day before the start of early voting: Longtime anti-gay activist Dave Wilson, who once led a successful effort to amend the city charter to deny benefits to the partners of...

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Parker elected Houston mayor

Annise Parker won the runoff with 52.78% of the vote to Gene Locke’s 47.22%, amounting to an 11,000 vote margin [This is the corrected tally; see “What was Parker’s final margin?” above]. She grabbed...

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Out and About

Almost immediately after Annise Parker won the Houston mayor’s race last December, a new phrase started cropping up in the local lexicon of one-upmanship. “Kathy’s done my taxes for years,” I heard a...

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Rasmussen: Perry 51, White 38

The numbers speak for themselves. We are seeing an instant replay of the Republican primary. Another Perry opponent has been unable to find a theme that resonates with the voters. Meanwhile, Perry has...

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Win the Weekend: What Texas is talking about

IF YOU’RE NOT SURE WHAT TO DO DURING THE TEXANS BYE WEEK Yeah, yeah, you’re mourning Matt Schaub. But Sunday is about soccer. In between the last Spurs title and the Mavericks title, The only sports...

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HISD Trustee Reelected After Mailing Out Anti-Gay Flyer

Yesterday Houston reelected Annise Parker, who, in 2009, became the first openly gay mayor of a major U.S. city. But farther down the ballot, one of the city’s school board races included a last-minute...

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World’s Most Honest Man Pays 58-Year-Old Parking Ticket

In 1953, Dale Crawford received a parking ticket in downtown Houston for an expired meter. Nearly sixty years later, he repaid his debt to the city, handing over a dollar to Mayor Annise Parker at a...

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HPD Stars in “The Fifth Worst Police Misconduct Video of 2011”

It’s not the sort of year-in-review list you want your state or city to be on: the now-infamous video of Houston Police Department officers beating teen burglary suspect, Brandon Holley, was named by...

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Annise Parker Cheers Obama’s Support of Marriage Equality

Houston Mayor Annise Parker cheered Barack Obama’s announcement that he supports marriage equality Wednesday. Parker, the first openly gay mayor of a major American city, received a call from top Obama...

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Houston Mayor’s Office Releases Curiously Timed Active Shooter PSA

The Aurora movie theater shooting continues to haunt the nation. And three days after the rampage, the Office of Houston Mayor Annise Parker put out a bizarre-but-helpful PSA that the office had...

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HPD Crime Lab To Be Revamped?

The Houston Police Department’s crime lab, beset by problems for years (think untested rape cases, rainwater-soaked evidence, and sloppy forensic work), could be spun off into an independent agency if...

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Houston Mayor Calls River Walk a “Cement Ditch”

Has Annise Parker been channeling her inner Charles Barkley? The Houston mayor set off a mini-controversy Wednesday and needled San Antonio in a response to a question about why the Bayou City doesn’t...

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Fire Fight

The offices of the Houston Firefighters’ Relief and Retirement Fund are nestled in a wooded enclave near the George Bush Intercontinental Airport. On a cold, wet morning in early February, behind the...

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Houston Passed Its Equal Rights Ordinance Last Night

HERO—the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance—passed last night. It’s been a bit of circuitous journey for the ordinance designed to protect the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender...

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Voter ID Un-Struck, Abortion Clinics Re-Opened, and Annise Parker Picks a Fight

Since yesterday there’s been a flurry of news developments, none of which I’m going to be able to write about today, but all of which are interesting, so I’d encourage you to take them up in the...

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Houston’s Equal Rights Ordinance, Explained

After more than eight months of legal drama, a lawsuit surrounding the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO) is set to go before a jury, a somewhat unusual move for a lawsuit of this kind (going before...

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Once a Travesty, Houston Now Texas’s Leader in Rape Kit Testing

With great fanfare earlier this week, Houston mayor Annise Parker (at lectern above) and Harris County district attorney Devon Anderson (at far right) announced some early results stemming from the...

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#BeyBeAHERO: Twitter’s Asking Beyoncé to Speak Up for Houston’s HERO

I’m out that H-town Coming, coming down I’m coming down dripping candy on the ground H, H-town, town, I’m coming down The hometown homage in her 2014 hit “***Flawless” proves Beyoncé hasn’t forgotten...

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Why No One Seems to Care About Houston’s Mayoral Race

What if they held a mayoral race and nobody came? That’s the question plaguing many people currently involved in Houston politics—even if no one else in town is asking it. This phenomenon isn’t...

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